The Mayan Apocalypse: By the Numbers
From Mental Floss:
Many
Americans are confident that the world isn’t really going to cease to
exist on Friday, Dec. 21, the day of the supposed Mayan apocalypse.
Still, plenty of people around the world are taking precautions
ahead of the day when the Mayan calendar ends and, the theory goes, so
does life as we know it. Here, a look at some of the unusual happenings,
by the numbers:
144,000
Days in the current cycle, the 13th Mayan bak’tun, that ends on Friday.
$100
Price of a fancy margarita — made with DeLeón reposado
tequila, Grand Marnier 100 year, agave nectar, and real gold flakes —
being offered by Iron Cactus, a Mexican grill in Austin, for people planning to drink like there’s no tomorrow
150
Police officers who will be turning visitors away
from Bugarach, a French village near a mountain peak where, rumor has
it, alien spacecraft will emerge on the last day and rescue everyone
nearby
200
Population of Bugarach...
